Different Montage Approaches (BSA 106)

DIFFERENT MONTAGE APPROACHES

by Sergei Eisenstein

Dziga Vertov

and Vsevolod Pudovkin

What is montage?

Montage is a technique which mostly used in film editing. Some of the shots that are edited into a sequence of space or time.

Sergei Eisenstein

He was born in Riga, Latvia on 22nd January 1898. Sergei was a Soviet film director as well as a film theorist back then. He was the pioneer in the montage invention. There are five methods of montage that he has developed:

1. Metric
2. Rhythmic
3. Tonal
4. Overtonal
5. Intellectual

Lev Kuleshov was one of his contemporary and both of them were really influenced by the cultural current that emerged after the Russian Revolution.

Dziga Vertov

Vertov was born in Poland on 2nd January 1896. He disagreed with Sergei Eisenstein' s theory about the narrative film making. He less focused on building the emotional sensations in his film and preferred to make his plot by combining the edited shots.

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Pudovkin was born in Russia on 16th February 1893. He was a film director, screen writer, and actor as well. Lev Kuleshov was on of his teacher who taught him more about the power of the masses in editing a film because of Sergei Eisenstein's influence. While Vsevolod himself more interested in the courage and resilience of individuals.